Labrador, the country and the people . shmen brought over in theearlier period of the Hudsons Bay Company were a notablefailure in adaptability to the conditions, remaining ahen tothe life and seeking usually a final escape from their sur-roundings. Analysis of the deeper affinities of the language must beleft to the linguist; superficially it does not appear to havea common origin with any of the European tongues. Itmust be supposed that articulation, at least, is affected byclimate and mode of life, as is physiognomy as well in thecase of dwellers upon wind-blown plains. A relation mayexist
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Labrador, the country and the people . shmen brought over in theearlier period of the Hudsons Bay Company were a notablefailure in adaptability to the conditions, remaining ahen tothe life and seeking usually a final escape from their sur-roundings. Analysis of the deeper affinities of the language must beleft to the linguist; superficially it does not appear to havea common origin with any of the European tongues. Itmust be supposed that articulation, at least, is affected byclimate and mode of life, as is physiognomy as well in thecase of dwellers upon wind-blown plains. A relation mayexist between the mild chmate of southern Europe and theprevaihng use of the outer organs of speech by the Latinraces. The rolling r and the mobile face are hardly to beassociated with high latitudes. In the north, on the con-trary, it might be difficult to find any word in the Algon-quian, or in that very different language, the Eskimo, which could not be spoken clearly with the face immov-able. These are languages which can be used without. Eskimo and Nascaupee Indians, Hudson Bay-